Cleaning An Iron with Vinegar | It Works!
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2017
- My iron was spitting lime deposits (or something white) from the hard water in our area. (I should have been diligent in using filtered or distilled water instead of tap water!) It took a few cycles but I finally got the iron fully clean. During cleaning, the iron began spitting brown deposits and then black deposits on the towel I used to check the progress. Be careful not to iron clothes until the iron is completely clean!!! The video shows the problem, the problem solving, and the positive outcome.
This is the iron I have: Hamilton Beach Steam Iron & Vertical Steamer for Clothes with Scratch-Resistant Durathon Soleplate, 8' Retractable Cord, 3-Way Auto Shutoff, Anti-Drip, Self-Cleaning, 1500 Watts, Blue amzn.to/3k65mcr
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My iron was spitting lime deposits (or something white) from the hard water in our area. (I should have been diligent in using filtered or distilled water instead of tap water!) It took a few cycles but I finally got the iron fully clean. During cleaning, the iron began spitting brown deposits and then black deposits on the towel I used to check the progress. Be careful not to iron clothes until the iron is completely clean!!! The video shows the problem, the problem solving, and the positive outcome.
This is the iron I have: Hamilton Beach Steam Iron & Vertical Steamer for Clothes with Scratch-Resistant Durathon Soleplate, 8' Retractable Cord, 3-Way Auto Shutoff, Anti-Drip, Self-Cleaning, 1500 Watts, Blue amzn.to/3k65mcr
Thanks for watching! Remember, it is free to like subscribe, leave a comment, and share. UA-cam is free!!!
UPDATE: I bought a new iron just like this one! Here is the video review: ua-cam.com/video/PhLpo-uElbA/v-deo.html
Thank you so much! I had followed a different video about a month ago and it didn’t work, so I bought a cheap iron and it wouldn’t steam. Then I found your video..And you saved my iron. Yay! My nasal cavities aren’t too happy and it truly tested my patience, but it was worth it. Thank you 😊
Glad it helped! Vinegar smells terrible but it does work.
Great demo video, thank you. If I can suggest, one can set up out doors in open air to perform this much needed cleaning task. The smell of vinegar wouldn't bother folks nearly as much and any mess/residue can just be spilled out.
Glad I found this video because I have the same iron and the same problem. Thanks for showing how to clean the iron from start to finish.
My pleasure! I really like this iron and didn't want to try a new one. It is working perfectly now. :)
Just tried it. Worked perfectly. Thank you!
Great!
Thanks Kim 😊 this worked perfect, even the spout became unclogged and water was able to pass through freely again!! 🙌🏾
Wonderful!
Thanks for taking the time to share this.
My pleasure! Thank you for watching and leaving a positive comment.
I've tried most of the methods on the web to clean the inside on an iron. Equal parts vinegar and water and straight vinegar etc. After doing this several times the iron was still spitting out black stuff (probably iron). Thought I was going to have to buy a new one. Then I had a brainstorm - try using a water pik, which many people already have. I let the iron cool after doing the straight vinegar, then I filled the reservoir of the water pik with distilled water, turned it on the strongest setting and placed the pik in each one of the holes on the bottom. I held the iron over the sink and went down one side and then did the other. Couldn't believe how much more gunk I got out. I did it twice to be sure. I couldn't find anyone else on the web that's tried this. Hope it works for you as well as it did for me.
Now that was smart!
What's water pik ? 😕
A Water Pik is a dental care device that uses pressurized water expelled from a small tube.
@@KimTownsel Aaah... thanks for explaining. 😆😎🖒
Clever
I am here to concur with you that it works. I am writing all the way from Kenya to thank you for this crucial information. My Iron had stopped releasing steam for sometime but, after listening to you and following your instructions my Iron is perfectly in order. Thanks once again. Keep up this great job; you never know how many will benefit. Blessings.
Thank you for watching and leaving a positive comment!
Thanks for the rack-in-the-sink tip. It's amazing how much gunk was stuck in the iron, icky.
greenbriar07 It truly is! Thank you for watching and leaving a positive comment!
Very good advice and technique, and I used a combo of old toothbrush and fingernail brush to speed things up and lessen the "vinegar time". Not a springtime romp in the park! Thanks for the video. Love the braids and brilliant eyes. Definitely somebody home in there!
Thanks for sharing!
At first I was like "15 minutes for an iron cleaning video?!?" But I'm glad I watched. I had given up on your iron half way through the video, but you stuck with it. Good lesson all around! Plus you have a very soothing voice. 😊
Thank you!!! Made me smile. 😃
This video helped a lot. I have the same iron and I was considering trashing it till I saw your video. I cleaned it and will use distilled water from now on when ironing.
Excellent! This experiment did greatly improve the performance of my iron.
I suggest diluting the vinegar with distilled water. I think "some" of the brown that I got out of my iron was maybe burnt vinegar when I tried it full strength. After I flushed it completely, I used 50/50 vinegar & distilled water & then followed up with all distilled water. Cleaning the residue off of the iron ports with a paste of baking soda/water worked great! This is at least a 45 minute project. And yes, a fan & open window is a MUST! LOL
Distilled water is cheap by the big container and it does work extremely well
Whatever you do keep doing it because *you look great.*
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I used this method on my C-PAP humidifier, to break up the build up on the bottom of the reservoir after watching this video.
Thanks for the hack.
My pleasure. I should have been cleaning my iron more frequently to avoid having to spend so much time on it this time. Lesson learned!
Rollis Karvellis y
Keeping the bottom of the reservoir clean allows a more efficient heat transfer .
Rollis Karvellis I agree. I think I have permanently killed my clothes steamer by using tap water over the years. I have tried using vinegar to clean it but due to the way the water travels, the vinegar doesn't seem to get in there. I haven't quite given up on it but am searching for a solution. 😀
Vinegar is a great natural cleaning product. If you don't mind the smell.i never thought to do it w an iron. Smart
luvfitall 😚😚😚
Hotpoint does do that too sometimes Tangled up my family's clothes and some towels to
Great effective.
Great video. Thank you
This worked great! Thanks so much for posting. :)
You are welcome! I also use vinegar to clean my coffee pot.
Useful and Hilarious! Thanks!
Thank you so much!
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much for this video cuz my iron is leaking and I have hard water and I'm getting white deposits on my scrubs when I iron. Unfortunately I just found your video and I don't have the time to do this now but I'm going to do it next weekend!! I WILL be using filtered water from now on and I know my iron is gonna be waaay worse than yours cuz I've NEVER cleaned it and I've had it over 15 yrs...GASPPP!! IKR!! I SERIOUSLY DIDN'T KNOW!! AND I'm mortified and embarrassed!! Thank you again so very much and I'll let you know how I make out!! And how long it'll take me, LOL!! 😉😊
P..S. I paid $175.00 for my iron and I was mad that it was doing this BUT in the end it's MY fault for not taking care of it 🙃🙃
That took a long time but it did the JOB!
I think I was stubborn and wanted to win! 🤣😂🤣
Great video, thanks!!!
Thanks! I am ironing now as I have videos rendering. I finally broke down and bought another iron just like this one! It is an excellent model. I think I have a video review up. :)
Got a great iron was going to sell it but now i seen this video will clean out that lime, thanks for the upload well done
Zoran Singh Excellent! Mine is still going strong!
Thanks
Welcome!
W😳W!!! That was a project!!!
Steve Duval It really was! Wasn't how I planned to spend my evening, lol.
Kim Townsel I could tell by your voice that it was taking longer than you anticipated 😬
Thank you Kim. That was very helpful :)
You are so welcome!
Nice
I'm thinking a soak and dump out of the top a few times would have given the "stuff" an option to come out the top . It's possible you are forcing a lot of pieces of "stuff" out of the tiny wholes . Helped me out with ideas either way , thanks bunches 👍
To cancel the smell you can use squeezed lemon juice, I would calculate it will also assist with dissolving the limescale build up
egliptor Thank you! I will try that next time. Do you think a pre-squeezed lemon juice like RealLemon would work?
Yep, squeeze real lemon.
@@egliptor awesome
Maybe you should have left it overnight with vinegar in there to soak. Some things you just cannot Rush.
I so much love your face so much. Love your hair. And vinegar cleans up a lot of things.
Thank you so much!
Your welcome gorgeous. Your amazing. I love your face. Best
Great idea and i recommend next time do this outside to avoid the smell.
msneede girl Excellent plan!!! 😎
Just been cleaning my wife's steam iron. It's one with a big water container. Excuse my English, Flemish guy here. Did the same process a couple of times. I saw a couple of nozzles that were blocked so I took a plastic bag, one of those flimsy see through ones, and filled it with vinegar. So when I place the iron inside the bag I could place it on flat surface horizontally like you would iron. The vinegar should be just be approx 1 cm high meaning inside the iron portion but not the electronics. This way you don't waste vinegar and keep it left standing longer to do its thing. After 2 hours the water was completely brown. I also poured some vinegar in the big container and started steaming the neigbourhood. A serious amount of damp comes out of that thing. I think it's good as new now.
Great idea!!! I like the efficiency of your method. I finally bought a new Iron exactly like this one but I do want to clean the old one to use for projects. I'm going to try your method next!
Wife was surprised tonight. No more stains, pressure was steady, even (before some holes were blocked I guess) and it felt like new (her words). If you fill the plastic bag do it little by little so it hits the line even with the white plastic in the case of this video. So no overfill.
@@Luke-san 🙂🙂🙂
thank youso so much ido now
My pleasure!
I got a second hand iron at the thrift store with the same problems. Your video demo really helped, but I went one step further to quicken the process and I took of 1/2 water & 1/2 vinegar and flipped the iron over the sink and poured it onto the iron slowly. The brown rusty crude came bubbling out of the holes and now I haven't seen it. I just repeated until it stopped surfacing the crude. I finished with q tips dipped in the solution.
Thanks for the tips!
😂🤣 @ sticking your head in the freezer! Thanks for the tip!
😂🤣😂 works when the eyes are watering from cutting up onions as well!
OH?! I will have to try that next time onions make me cry 😭! 👍😂
Dansani has added minerals which might be worse than hard tap water. Read the label on the Dansani bottle.
Thank you! I was not aware those additives contributed to the problem.
Here's an idea -- use a gravy separator when wanting to pour vinegar into the steam iron
Try this might help too let the iron rest flat put the iron turn off keep 50 50 ratio of distilled water and vinegar mix only fill to max fill line use only button setting to steam turned in upright to on not sprayer and lay iron flat untill all fluid has drained out of all steam holes keep repeat untill all air holes has drained out hope this might help keep iron unplugged though
Oh I would be so nervous doing this over my sink. Vinegar is acidic & would would be scared it would mess with the rubber gaskets in the sink. I might give a go in the yard.
it works.. but alrdy bought another iron and deionised water to go in it.. bfre trying it😑
I think you mentioned you were going to use something to freshen up the smell in your house after song this. What was that? Dryer sheets over your HVAC filter?
One of my very first video shows how I quickly make my house smell better. I take some kind of spray cologne and spray it over the air filter for the return air. It works super fast.
Every laundry room needs a funnel
Something interesting you said caught my attention. You said distilled water should be used in steam irons. So if tap water isn't acceptable, then people should purchase distilled water just to use in their irons?
That was my theory for the tap water that I have; it is "hard" water that causes problems in sinks, faucets, and toilets. So for me, I was told distilled or treated water would be better for the iron to avoid mineral build-up. A city near me has "soft" water so my friends there don't have the mineral build-up. However, another viewer made a good point about minerals in the Dasani water that I use.
I use distilled water in my iron and my steam mop. It’s actually recommend in your manual.
You can use citric acid instead of vinegar. It doesn’t smell like vinegar.
I've used filtered and distilled water and my iron still did this
Thank you for watching! :)
Is there a way to take the plate off and clean it I wonder!
Not that I know of but that would be helpful!
Can you do this with a steam generator tank that is separate from the actual Iron? Mine is unusable always leaks brown crap
I tried vinegar in my steam cleaner but I think I waited too long to try and descale it. The steamer was simply too corroded with mineral deposits. If I obtain another steamer, I will clean with vinegar earlier and regularly.
Thank you I’m going to try it when my vinegar arrives 😍 much love the video was really helpful
Can you just use straight white vinegar?
Probably. I used distilled white vinegar.
Can I ask you this? I used also a vinegar to clean the iron and came out from the holes something like a liquid which was sticking, something like brown glue.
Yes, I have had irons do that.
@@KimTownsel So,is this something good or bad? Because I think I damaged my iron if this is bad 😞
@@marymary1910 If it is sticky, I think it's time for a new iron. I just reviewed the newer version of the one I cleaned and am very happy with it.
@@KimTownsel Thank you so much for your immediate reply :)
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I would have left the vinegar in the iron for half an hour or so.
Richard Gardner Excellent suggestion. I made this video several months ago and honestly do not remember if I did so or not. When I clean my coffee maker at the first of the month, I do leave the vinegar in the water container for about ten minutes before running it though the brew cycle. (Then I put the violet vinegar in the bottom of of my dishwasher.) Thank you for watching and contributing! 😁😁😁
Instead of vinegar, use citric acid dissolved in water, it doesn't smell at all
Thanks for the tip!!!
Thank you very much. You're very beautiful too. 😍
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@@KimTownsel I tried it this morning and it worked. Thanks Kim
My iron have not been cleaning it,now its not working..i tried cleaning it today bt still nothing happens..can only see the light bt smoke and heat not coming out
Sounds dead. 😞
I think I'll just buy a new iron!
I bought a new one just like this one!
I really want to do this, but I'm worried about any rubber material or sealings inside the iron!
Bleach would deteriorate seals but I don't think an annual cleansing of vinegar would hurt the seals in the iron.
I know that acid destroys rubber. That's why I was worried about using viniger (which is a type of acid) to clean the iron from inside.
@@TheKhwailed MY girlfriend uses vinegar every time she runs her dishwasher in the cleaning mode with dishes in it. Nothing has ever happened to her seals on the dishwasher so I would think this is extremely safe. Vinegar is used for so many different projects that need to be cleaned especially kitchen appliances small or large 😊
@@Missi_66 ok .. I'm gonna try this, and let you know.
@@KimTownsel ok now. I used the viniger with water last week. About three times and now the iron is doing just fine. But it still needs a few more rounds with water/viniger mixture and a few rinsing with distilled water.
After I finished, my two daughters at the end came to me asking for Pringles!! (the one with the viniger flavour)!!
You are pretty
I wonder how much you work out to look so fit. :)
I am a powerlifter, believe or not. State records and one National for USPA Federation. 💪 🏅 I have a playlist about videos about that. 😎
Kim Townsel ,I have found and checked out those videos in the mean time. Well done and congratulations
@@tiernangorduin7975 Thank you!!! 😁😍😎
distilled water is all I ever use. No problems like this mess😊
Distilled water only for my replacement iron. I learned my lesson. 😁
Good for you. You just wasted precious minutes
Good for you. You just wasted precious minutes
Good for you. You just wasted precious minutes
I tried to use distilled water in my Rowenta and it was a mess! Water kept leaking out. Didn't know what the problem was until I checked user manual!
Manual said no distilled water?
@@KimTownsel Very first time I used it, I used distilled water and water just came out the holes. I looked at the manual and it said not to use this. I used tap water and everything was fine, but now I have mineral deposits.
@@dianematonti6731 I have a super expensive Rowenta and the manual said the same thing and I have always had hard water. Now it's leaking and getting white deposits all over my clothes. I'm going to try filtered water from my sink and see if that works. 😊
@@KimTownsel That is correct.
You may need to buy a new iron, 😮
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I tried this and my iron box is dead....😢😢😢😢😢 its not working anymore, the plate doesn't get hot
Oh, my. Sounds as if the iron has died.
Very dead😢
Why is it that my iron smells burnt
If you used unsure water, sediment may be burnt near the heating elements. If the iron was used on too high of a heat for a material, it may result in a lingering burnt odor.
@@KimTownsel i mean is it normal to smell burnt if used in high heat? So the solution would be to adjust the heat right?
Yes, lower the heat. Make sure to use clean, pure water.
@@KimTownsel any other tips? What about cleaning the sole plate? Can i use vinegar ?
@@mimamimoo Yes. There is a product called Bar Keeper's Friend that is also great on stainless steel. Bar Keepers Friend Powder Cleanser 12 Oz - Multipurpose Cleaner & Stain Remover - Bathroom, Kitchen & Outdoor Use - for Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Brass, Ceramic, Porcelain, Bronze and More amzn.to/38uosmF
Hindi me
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Doesn't work but it is dangerous... getting the iron wet burned a fuse
Honey, you need to purchase another iron. then use only distilled water in it.
LOL, I agree!
u dont need to buy distilated water u can just use the water coming out from your aircondition
🤤🤤🤤 ???
@@KimTownsel ua-cam.com/video/ISHJt7nsPGA/v-deo.html check this video
your airconditioner makes distilated water
@@florianabucur8662 ok. I have a heat pump that doesn't output water. Maybe this information will help other people. 😎
Funny, but vinegar smells like vinegar to me. Not bad. Not horrible. But most of y’all think it smells. 👃🏻
vinegar is acid by breathing this vapor you put acid in your lung that s crazy action
Have you ever been out of your amniotic sac?
Get a new iron and use distilled water. This is not worth it.
Sandra Belcher Haha! It was crazy but the iron is working GREAT!
Bottle of Vinegar $1.50, a decent iron $30+ !!! It's worth it to me! 👍👍👍👍
They sell these things for 20$, fuck the vinegar.
I will pass but if that is what turns you on, have at it.
YOUR VIDEOS IS NOT VERY CLEAR. THE IRON IS STILL PLUGGED IN THE OUTLET, WHEN U R FLUSHING IT OUT?
Really???
Take a nap; come back and watch when you are rested and can avoid talking in all caps aka screaming.
Yes, still plugged in electric outlet.
Stop complaining and show us how to clean the iron!!
Stop complaining and watch the video.
Kyu bewakuf banate ho..itna toh samjho ki acid se current bhi aata hai
This is what Google Translate says you wrote: Why make stupid..that you think that acid also comes from the current
What do you mean???
Time is money and for all that time you spent you could of just bought another cheap steam iron
That is one theory. However, at the time I happened to have more time and vinegar than I had money. Thanks for watching.